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With
the recent run-up in fuel prices, I have been looking at alternatives
to replace my aging oil-fired steam burner. Having been the original
burner that came with the house when it was first built in 1945,
it looks like a super-sized C-3PO from Star Wars and is very inefficient.
Newer oil burners are cool to the touch while this asbestos behemoth
gets quite hot as it is wasting fuel heating up my basement. With
high oil prices, this is quite irritating. I started looking at
natural gas stoves: Natural gas is too pricey right now, while bottled
gas is more expensive than wood. Wood stoves are too much of a pain
with finding and storing the wood, not to mention dealing with the
messy ash and soot laden chimney. Electric heat would require me
winning the lottery, so that's out. That only leaves wood/corn pellet
stoves left as a possible alternative to my oil-burner. Fortunately
they do pass the muster and only have a few drawbacks.
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